Fundraiser will help victims of fatal Jamesburg fire

Neighbor Ellen Quinlans talks with family members outside the burned home of George and Jamye Lowenberg on Gatzmer Avenue in Jamesburg, on July 3.
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The Helmetta Fire Department will host a bingo night to raise money for the children of two young mothers who died in a July 3 house fire in Jamesburg, according to a report on mycentraljersey.com.

Money raised at the Aug. 3 fundraiser will help the children of Jayme Lowenberg, 28, and Michelle Gonzalez, 25, who died after a fast-moving fire ripped through Lowenberg's home.

Lowenberg, whose husband was in Virginia with her family at the time of the fire, died after
saving her 10-month-old son, Derrick, by dropping him out of an attic window into the hands of a good Samaritan. Shortly after, Lowenberg either fell or tried to jump out of the window. She missed the roof of a small mudroom in the back of the house -- the same roof her son's rescuer stood upon -- instead hitting an overhang and falling to the ground.

Gonzalez and her two young children, were removed from the house by firemen. Gonzalez, of Triangle, Va., died three days later of her injuries.

Jayme Lowenberg's husband, George Lowenberg, 38, lost everything in the fire.

The fundraiser will be held Aug. 3 at the Holy Trinity Church hall, 100 Main St., Helmetta.